tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post2544814895167012808..comments2023-06-26T11:06:29.465+01:00Comments on Plutonium Shores: Uneasy Riders - First look at the Sorcerer BluWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-39770140178092803112014-05-16T07:38:23.949+01:002014-05-16T07:38:23.949+01:00Yeah, those 4Fronts were cheap alrite but damn ! t...Yeah, those 4Fronts were cheap alrite but damn ! those <a href="http://www.videocollector.co.uk/assault-on-precinct-13/16625" rel="nofollow">hideous</a> covers ! Yeah, totally agreed about vod, there's no romance there at all, but I guess the landscape is changing - I mean do people actually listen to albums these days, or does the ipod shuffle reign supreme ? Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-66584223537704176722014-05-15T20:54:20.048+01:002014-05-15T20:54:20.048+01:004Front Video, there's a memory. I'm 34 an...4Front Video, there's a memory. I'm 34 and my film school boils down to moviedrome, the occasional Welles / Kurosawa season on BB2 or C4 (all taped) and anything put out by 4Front with an 18 cert and £5 price tag. Glorious fun... I can't imagine someone getting a bit sentimental over a vod service.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06668538867525922652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-56072847712158984312014-05-14T18:36:47.022+01:002014-05-14T18:36:47.022+01:00Tenebrae is what I used as a 'gateway' dru...Tenebrae is what I used as a 'gateway' drug for some of my friends for Italian horror - it just has everything! Great camera work, lively pace, a goofy John Saxon, lovely kills...<br /><br />Yikes, 40 big ones is steep, I couldn't shell that out these days I'm afraid. I'm strictly a bargain chaser this last year. <br /><br />That's hilarious on Cozzi, I was the same when JP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-52495823155950935972014-05-14T15:49:14.844+01:002014-05-14T15:49:14.844+01:00John I’m looking down thru a Charles Band filmogra...John I’m looking down thru a Charles Band filmography and it’s a wasteland for me, nothing I’d be interested in. I seriously thought he directed <b><i>Zone Troopers</i></b> but not so… Yeah <b><i>Tenebrae</i></b> is fantastic and it’s the film I'd point an Argento-beginner towards – I really can’t say <i>why</i>, but the shot of the straight razor smashing the light bulb is one of my most Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-41693842106051137472014-05-14T15:23:09.640+01:002014-05-14T15:23:09.640+01:00I gotta admit, I never liked the Redemption ones, ...I gotta admit, I never liked the Redemption ones, even though I have a few knocking around. As you said, I was more of an 'original poster art' kinda guy.<br /><br />I do have a soft spot for some of the Charles Band stuff, but he seems to be cheaping out on providing decent, uncut prints for many of his films. I refuse to pay money for cut versions, there really is no excuses now, no JP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-63850788127494834622014-05-14T08:19:17.715+01:002014-05-14T08:19:17.715+01:00Oh gawd, those 4Front tapes were just dreadful, re...Oh gawd, those 4Front tapes were just dreadful, remember those hideous generic gold covers ? I used to love the old Redemption VHS sleeves – I’d usually insist on original poster art but those sleeves were always cool and sexy. I still have a few Redemptions – <b><i>Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Tombs of the Blind Dead</i></b> and a few more… I was looking thru the list of films 88Films have Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-48916628430478588012014-05-13T20:11:48.405+01:002014-05-13T20:11:48.405+01:00Wes, it sounds like we have some identical release...Wes, it sounds like we have some identical releases, as I too have that lenticular sleeve edition of Halloween, and I was the same as you; it was one of my first DVD purchases, and put the wobbly 4front release to shame. <br /><br />the thing about 88 Films is that they obviously have a contract with Charles Band, as 95% of their releases are Full Moon productions, so they had already dropped forJP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-78716873433431134232014-05-13T16:38:10.543+01:002014-05-13T16:38:10.543+01:00John, it always amazes me about German film censor...John, it always amazes me about German film censorship - that it exists at all, considering some of the hardest, kinkiest porn is made in Germany... I was just reading up on the Cundey-approved <b><i>Halloween</i></b> Blu - I have the 2007 Anchor Bay UK edition which is <i>not</i> the one to own it seems, but fuck it, I'm not able. I'm kinda sick of <b><i>Halloween</i></b> now. I mean <a Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-68299318968441599612014-05-13T11:13:05.816+01:002014-05-13T11:13:05.816+01:00That's interesting, I hate when that happens. ...That's interesting, I hate when that happens. We get screwed over all the time with edited versions of DVDs, and we hardly ever even realise it. Perfect example, Season One of Walking Dead was cut on DVD, to placate the german censors. Most people probably didn't realise it though, despite it airing uncut on TV.<br /><br />The issues with Halloween are that the saturation is incorrect, JP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-72103731319053551512014-05-12T18:18:31.322+01:002014-05-12T18:18:31.322+01:00John, Wild At Heart has a sort of exploding head l...John, <b><i>Wild At Heart</i></b> has a <i>sort</i> of exploding head left in the current DVD/Blu editions but it's not the splatter masterpiece you remember from the VHS - the exploding head now goes out like a bright firecracker. I should have elaborated further on this earlier but the modification was actually made when the film was before the MPAA back in 1990 - the exploding head was Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-26766658782746784672014-05-12T13:53:42.159+01:002014-05-12T13:53:42.159+01:00Woah, Wild at Heart no longer has that glorious ex...Woah, Wild at Heart no longer has that glorious exploding head? Really? I've never had it on anything but VHS. Same goes for Mulholland Drive, I saw it in the cinema and had the dvd, but don't recall any discrepancy between the two. I know Kubrick did the same for the ass shot in Eyes Wide Shut...<br /><br />Another that causes great anguish with fans is the incorrectly colour timed JP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-44258085508541618722014-05-12T11:26:02.872+01:002014-05-12T11:26:02.872+01:00Rants are always welcomed and encouraged... Yep, I...Rants are always welcomed and encouraged... Yep, I agree with everything you say - by all means change, adjust, alter, cut or expand but leave the original for the rest of us. I thank the movie gods (or movie devils) for preserving <b><i>The Exorcist</i></b> in its original form – I caught the revised version on TG4 a few years back and it was dreadful, a complete vandalism of the film. It’s a Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-88255065005858372072014-05-12T10:34:36.900+01:002014-05-12T10:34:36.900+01:00To be honest, the Star Wars fiasco is disgraceful,...To be honest, the Star Wars fiasco is disgraceful, and his attempts to bury the original negatives were completely childish. I mean, the original was accepted for the National Film Registry for cultural significance, they should have thrown it out when he went back and altered it. What he did to THX 1138 is also detestable, now the only decent version available is the VHS.<br /><br />To an extentJP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-22435823371940381992014-05-11T17:00:43.001+01:002014-05-11T17:00:43.001+01:00Thanks John. I think the color timing has been imp...Thanks John. I think the color timing has been improved on the new Blu, it certainly wouldn't stop me from picking it up. My original idea for the post was to bang out a few words on the Blu but then I thought I <i>should</i> point out the differences between the Blu and the DVD, even though I'm no expert at these kind of comparison reviews. Honestly though, the Blu is required viewing soWeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-90670277780131474912014-05-11T16:46:38.960+01:002014-05-11T16:46:38.960+01:00Yeah, the title is baffling alrite, so much so the...Yeah, the title is baffling alrite, so much so the film originally went out in the UK and Ireland as <b><i>Wages of Fear</i></b>. Personally, I love the <b><i>Sorcerer</i></b> title even if it is superficial to think about... I love the truck faces, and the Sorcerer's front with the grinning grill face echoing the rock carving - it's always resonated powerfully with me, just like the of Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-35275053779720895122014-05-11T15:46:11.251+01:002014-05-11T15:46:11.251+01:00Excellent Wes, I've never actually seen this, ...Excellent Wes, I've never actually seen this, though it seems like it might be the best time to catch up on it. The change in colour concerns me: is this another of Friedkin's attempts to alter history a la French Connection, or is it that something went wrong in the re-timing of the colour? I can only assume it's Friedkin meddling, I really do detest this kind of behaviour.JP Mulvanettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381363705787780363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-41340091024585598352014-05-11T12:18:50.625+01:002014-05-11T12:18:50.625+01:00Yeah, but the booklet has kind of put me off buyin...Yeah, but the booklet has kind of put me off buying the memoir. I've gone for William Friedkin: Films of Aberration, Obsession, and Reality<br />by Thomas D. Clagett instead. (what a title!).<br /><br />regarding the gunshot sounds, maybe it's my set up but, I like that they were not massively clear on the soundtrack.... hard to say more.<br /><br />The thing I notices for the first timeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06668538867525922652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-50216966290529621792014-05-11T09:46:23.407+01:002014-05-11T09:46:23.407+01:00Wynter, I've seen Sorcerer maybe 5 or 6 times ...Wynter, I've seen <b><i>Sorcerer</i></b> maybe 5 or 6 times and either I'd forgotten it or not seen it at all, but I just noticed that black-eyed bride when watching the Blu yesterday. A great little touch. I'd say it's probably the roughest, toughest, meanest PG-rated film one is likely to see... Another thing I discovered just yesterday from the booklet that comes with the Weshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502948357255970132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8409782986498845263.post-58687259982652681882014-05-10T23:49:05.602+01:002014-05-10T23:49:05.602+01:00Who'd have thought that two films came out in ...Who'd have thought that two films came out in 1977!<br /><br />Watched this a couple of nights back and it's like watching a different film to the terrible fullscreen DVD. Personally, I love the movie and the cynicism of the whole thing, the bride's black eye is a good indicator of the type of movie you're about to get into.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06668538867525922652noreply@blogger.com